The Moth Catcher is a splendid, solidly plotted modern take on a golden-age "closed circle" mystery, and Vera, as always, is a delight.
TMNT has a 34% approval rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 115 reviews with an average rating of 5/10, and the consensus being "TMNT's art direction is splendid, but the plot is non-existent and the dialogue lacks the irony and goofy wit of the earlier TMNT movies".
The splendid Matthew Marsh thickens the plot as the doctor with wandering hands and self-interested remedies.
With a labyrinthine plot, a splendid reveal and superb evocation of the wafer-thin veneer of glamour at the bottom end of showbusiness, this is thoroughly enjoyable.
Instead, I'll say that it would have been nice if a certain rather high-profile reviewer (who will remain unnamed) had managed, in his otherwise splendid review, to avoid giving away a major plot twist.
Now, in his most recent book,a splendid, suspenseful and irresistiblenovel, he takes possession of the plot of"Madame Bovary" just as thoroughly andmystically as its heroine continues to possesshim.
A similar statement was made by Euan Ferguson of The Observer, who also wrote that the episode was "splendid" with good villains, though he felt that the plot was "insanely complicated" and hard to understand.
In each a paper-thin plot served as little more than an excuse for splendid singing, lively playing, sumptuous costuming and a whole lot of dance.
A synopsis of the plot would have helped, yet this "Nutcracker" flowed through its splendid dancers, harmonious from their graceful fingers to the supple contours of their legs.
Other splendid actors, including Jennifer Lawrence and Rose Byrne, are constrained to rather literal and stiff deliveries of needed plot details; Fassbender is limited to a seemingly disengaged cartoonish impassivity.
